Drilling units

[STMO]

As playing a minor country like Denmark I find there is a dilemma - should I lower maintenance (and get some hard needed ducats) or should I start drilling and improve my army's capability. What are your thought process?

 

[artemis667]

Drill baby drill! The benefits from high army professionalism look nice even if it takes a while to pay off fully.

Only situation I wouldn't be doing it is if I really needed the ducats more...

 

[Sfan]

As a minor country I would lower maintenance until I can get a strong economic base. As Denmark I would drill, because that's a major country.

 

[atwix]

drillling seems only worth it when you are big and powerful and rolling in dosh.

small nations will have to rely on mercs sooner or later, or slacken recruitment standards for more manpower.

one could argue small nations could drill to get manpower from slacken standards, but i don't see point.

you will stop drilling fast, if an enemy invader wiped your troops within month of start of invading war, just because your drilling army has no morale...

hence, drilling is only safe/worth it if you can hide behind active forts....

which costs even more to do.

 

[PhoenixG]

The longer I play this patch, the more I find I've a hard time to find the time to drill my units. Sometimes I even need to siege stuff without a leader just to be able to drill my units. When your big you need to use all your units to juggle truces unless you can effort to stay a peace for an extended period of time.

 

[Heiliges Thüringens Reich]

Countries the size of the Teutonic Order can safely drill without losing money. Anything smaller (without good economy), I'd advise to stay way from it for the time being

 

[Brynjar]

As Denmark I would say kill, kill, kill! No time for drilling when there is Russian land to be conquered.